Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTENIndulge your imagination in every possible flight.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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